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Who: All heroes
When: Day 45, Morning
Where: The clearing

[ In the morning, all heroes can wake up to see a new trial is being held! Following the door that appears in the clearing will lead to a Very Scary, faux-abandoned house. There are all the markings of terrible Halloween decorations, for those that are familiar with it. There are fake spiderwebs all around, fake bats, skeletons, and even spider skeletons.

There are several different tables spread across the room - one has a pile of small, sticky spiders in it, then there's one where people can get refreshments, if they so wish, and all others have tons and tons of pumpkins sitting there. None of those are carved - though there are several carved, lit pumpkins spread across the room - just sitting on the floor.

Notably there is a runway, and behind that, a room in which people may grab costumes, or pieces of costume. Make up is also provided.

Finn can be seen at the end of the Runway, aptly wearing his Spider-Man costume, before he begins to explain ]

So! I've recently found out I fight crazy people for a, huh, possibly living. Whether I get paid or not is still under debate. And who would have thought, there's a costumed guy for every occasion. There's no better way to drive off the mental image of a guy fighting with a flaming pumpkin on his head than make better memories, so I'm imposing Halloween on you all.

For those of you who are not in the known, what with us being all from different worlds and stuff, Halloween is, huh ... probably an actual serious holiday somewhere, somehow, but in practice it's all about the money, baby! And scary stuff. And sharing scary stories and getting candy.

So there you have it. A game to get some actual fun Halloween action that does not involve people barely avoiding getting brutally murdered and blown up. Not speaking of anyone in particular here.

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[she is going to stick two more spiders on her person and get another pumpkin and carve it in the same way into

another cat, but a different cat!

she offers it to him. she doesn't have any grey candy this time but he doesn't need to know that.]

Here.

Thank you.

[Will accept the pumpkin.]

I need to do a scary story.

[Though what scares 80H...]

As you like, then.

mysteries]

Actually.....got one I think works for Eliza.

[Which he did and more candies.]

....I'm just gonna give people peppers at this rate.

Very well, then. On both counts.

[Sighs.]

[But gonna get a pepper for her.]

Just let me know if you want more hot chocolate, I'll probably always need to be offering it at this rate.

It is fine, please do not waste your time.

Like I said, I'll probably need to offer it.

[Also came back as a very sparkly unicorn and two more spiders.]

And now I need to do another costume change.

[Goes off to do that and now he's a pirate.

Edited 2019-11-05 01:27 (UTC)

Nicely done. I require a few minutes.

[she is going to make him another cat pumpkin (thankfully, she is using smaller pumpkins), and change her costume twice as well.

she will dress as a bar wench, and then a proper princess.]

[He has to change yet again.]

[And finally landing on a sailor suit.]

[And offering her more hot chocolate.]

As predicted, more spicy.

[she's still on her first mug...but she will down it and accept another.]

Thank you.

[she will fetch him another pepper]

[He has so many purples. SO MANY.]

[Will accept the pepper.]

Just need to do a scary story.

[It's too bad he can't do 'emotional vulnerability' as a scary story.]

There was a town that was plagued with great tragedy. Children would disappear, never to be seen again. The parents searched and searched to no avail and the police were unable to find evidence of the killer.

But then one day, one of the children was found. Gravely injured, having escaped their captor. It was the old groundskeeper from the school! But with the child having died from their injuries, there was no proof to arrest the groundskeeper.

The parents refused to wait for another child to be taken however.

They locked the groundskeeper in his old shed and set fire to it, burning him alive as he screamed and swore revenge.

He would come for their children again, and they wouldn't even be safe asleep.

It was years later, those children started to have nightmares. And some wouldn't wake up again....

[she

isn't scared im sorry, dusk. Her tone is even and polite.]

That is a good story.

[Yeah, he figured.]

It is. It spawned a whole movie franchise.

Oh, did it? Which?

Nightmare on Elm Street. Freddie Kruger kills teenagers in their dreams.

Ah, a vile spectre. Could they not have--[oh right, no magic.]

Nevermind.

Kind of limited on legitimate way to battle dream nightmares, yeah.

[Aaaaand another blue. EXCUSE HIM, and he guesses maybe he will just dress up like Jason, why not.]

Who are you?

[Offers him another pepper]

Jason Vorhees.

[Will accept]

Jason was once a boy who attended summer camp. A quite kid who got teased a lot, was alone a lot. Not the worst thing at a summer camp. But it's a lot more dangerous when the counselors aren't the kind to pay attention.

The kids were told to go swimming. Most of the kids had friends, people to keep an eye on them, but Jason only had the counselors.

Unfortunately, as teenagers do, they decided making out was better than their jobs.

Jason ended up drowning in an old net, no one knowing better until it was far too late.

The camp closed down for years. Until someone decided to open up the camp again, but the counselors were still irresponsible.

Jason's spirit didn't like that. So he rose up from the depths of the lake and killed all those who repeated the same grievances that killed him, now an unstoppable killing machine.